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005			20180722224334.0
008			170104s2017 nyua b 001 0ceng
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100	1		_aShapiro, Laura, _eauthor. _97413
245	1	0	_aWhat she ate : _bsix remarkable women and the food that tells their stories / _cLaura Shapiro.
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bViking, _c[2017]
300			_a307 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking--what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives--social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people's attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table. It's a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, who challenges our warm associations of food, family, and table; Barbara Pym, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to "having it all" meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-298) and index.
505	0		_aDorothy Wordsworth -- Rosa Lewis -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Eva Braun -- Barbara Pym -- Helen Gurley Brown.
600	1	0	_aWordsworth, Dorothy, _d1771-1855. _9329497
600	1	0	_aLewis, Rosa. _991037
600	1	0	_aRoosevelt, Eleanor, _d1884-1962. _921157
600	1	0	_aBraun, Eva. _99010
600	1	0	_aPym, Barbara. _926912
600	1	0	_aBrown, Helen Gurley. _9311102
650		0	_aCelebrities _vBiography. _9144508
650		0	_aDinners and dining _xHistory. _9221346
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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